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Macaron Tutorial

Friday, April 03, 2009

Be ready for a sweet post today! Actually, I am leaving this space to my friend Chris while I am knee deep working on the pictures for the book (selecting just one per recipe is not that easy!!).

I wish I could find three words to describe Chris, but three are never enough for that. Talented, fearless, funny, heart of gold, bad ass Doctor, Italian, smart and beautiful... See, I could go on. Did I mention generous? And crazy busy...Thus, I am so glad she gave me the gift of her time this week to come up with a post that celebrates one of my favorite foods. I can't wait for her next visit to spend another fun filled baking weekend with us and the crazy pupps! Hope you guys enjoy today's post and will take the time to thank Chris for stepping in. I will be back next week with a dessert baked with my mom during their visit.

To all who have volunteered to test recipes, I have not forgotten about you. I just have to weed out some kinks in backed up files before sending assignments out to you, so please bear with me for the next few days.

I have the pleasure of being Helen’s guest blogger this week and I am not sure if words can accurately express how honored I feel that she asked me. There are those blogs that we have all been following since blogging came into our routines. Are you naming them in your head right now? Yup…me too. When I recite my list, Helen is at the top of my mine. I followed silently for a long time, then a comment here and there, slowly moving to pretty regularly.

Then, there was one day about two years ago that I was in a panic with a baking question…about tart dough. Who could I ask? Helen? Would an email be really intrusive, random, and weird? Ah! What the heck? I threw caution to the wind, typed my ramble, and hit send. You know? She emailed me back! And since then, she and I have been chatting like long time girlfriends.

It is pretty funny (to me) that I moved to Atlanta over ten years ago, always said I wanted to see Charleston, and never got there until…..my visit to Helen’s! Although I was really there to visit Helen and B, it was also a working weekend. Helen was working on her cookbook, while also teaching me some tricks of the trade for a job I had gotten in a restaurant. Within those tricks of the trade? Macarons. How I love looking at all the pictures of Helen’s macarons! But, my ability to create them was lacking and I did not want to leave without learning how to make one of my favorite sweets in the world. Since then, I have made them several times and the various flavors are received well.

However, as seen across the blogosphere, I am not the only one enamored with macarons. Macaron making and baking. So, that is what I have decided to focus my post on today….an Ode to Macarons.

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All of these macarons look fantastic! I've always wanted to try making them but I must admit, they look so difficult... Someday I'll give it a shot. For now, I'll just look at these beautiful photos (:

I often wonder how many of us consider Helen "ours". Many thanks for these links - a macaron is one of those things I haven't tried yet, even with all of Helen's teachings. Lucky you to have gotten an in-person kitchen run!!!

By the way, I clicked on the link you provided for the Apartment Therapy website, but it doesn't link the actual post that has the macaroon pictures. It links to the entire website. This leads to lots of scrolling.

Do you know what month/date that entry was posted? I'd really like to see it.

To think when I first started my blog I had no idea what macarons were. Now after seeing Tartelettes site faithfully for over a year now and the beginnings of Veronica's Petit Bouche, I have been totally won over by the Macaron Monster. I had to make them, with much reading, studying really... I made them. success, they are a repeater in my house. But ALWAYS I think of Tartelette and Veronica when I make macarons. Great post Mele Cotte.

Photos don't tell lie (unless someone is mucking around with touch up hehehe). Thank you for asking my photo to be included here, Helen and Chris. Never thought of the pairing ones hehehe... but here they are. Goodness, such a clever girl you are, H! I think I am going for that Apartment Therapy hehehe...

I've never tasted them (macarons) and making them my own is still a little frightening but a challenge. Will I ever be brave enough to try? May be yes, and that will be because of you all and your beautifull and charming macarons.

thanks to you and your amazing talent, i was inspired... after much reading and studying your recipes, i tackled the macaron, and luckily for me they came out wonderful... thank you so much for sharing your creativity!

I just got back from a trip to New York and made sure to try macarons everywhere I saw them! I'm saving the best for last (got a lovely box of six different flavors from Tafu waiting in the cooler downstairs) but enjoyed them all. I'm forgiving the less-than-perfect ones because it was horribly rainy and the flavors were good anyway. I'll be writing that up eventually...

Now I want to make some! It's so exhilarating to get a successful batch. :)

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